Boy, does this ever give us deja vu. Back in the ’80s, the State Department played an anti-Semitism card against Sandinista Nicaragua, just as as the right does today against Bolivarian Venezuela. Daniel Ortega hasn’t even taken office yet, and… Read moreAnti-Semitism card played against Sandinista Nicaragua —already!
From the Associated Press, Nov. 9: Wanted Mexican leftist says Oaxaca rebellion will spread OAXACA, Mexico — Flavio Sosa is remarkably relaxed for a wanted man. As the most visible leader of a leftist movement that has rattled the Vicente… Read moreOaxaca: APPO’s Flavio Sosa speaks
From the NY Daily News, Nov. 9: SUV kills Brooklyn boy, 5 An SUV fleeing a fender bender jumped a Brooklyn sidewalk and mowed down a mother and her three children as they held hands – killing a 5-year-old boy,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Responding to the Nov. 6 bomb attacks in Mexico City, Mexico’s contested president-elect Felipe Calderon pledged to “work arduously to recover the capacity of the state to face delinquency and terrorism… I have to be honest about this approach, it… Read moreMexico: Calderon pledges bloody campaign against “terrorism”
Kinda heartwarming, eh? From The Telegraph, Nov. 8: Jews and Muslims unite against homosexuals Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have found common ground in their fierce opposition to a gay rights rally due to be held in the city this… Read moreBigotry unites monotheistic faiths
As Mexico’s federal Government Secretary Carlos Abascal appealed to Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to reconsider his stated intention to remain in office, thousands of the embattled governor’s supporters rallied in the streets of Oaxaca City Nov. 7. That same… Read moreDueling marches in Oaxaca; “governability” still not restored
Note the last paragraph. Tajikistan, it seems, is the new Uzbekistan. Islam Karimov may now be Moscow’s son of a bitch. But Emomali Rakhmonov is (as FDR said of Nicaraguan dictator Anastaio Somoza) “our son of a bitch.” From Pakistan’s… Read moreTajikistan: autocrat holds pseudo-election
Have we finally arrived at the pinnacle of cynicism? The use of torture is used as an excuse to keep detainees from speaking publicly about…the use of torture. From AP, Nov. 5, link added: Court Told It Lacks Power in… Read moreSecret “interrogation techniques” justify incommunicado detention
From El Universal, Nov. 7, via Chiapas95: OAXACA – A combative grandmother known as Doctor Berta has become the signature voice of the insurgents in Oaxaca, where radio airwaves have become an essential tool of protesters. With each day that… Read moreGrandma is radio voice of Oaxaca’s resistance
For all of the lurid propaganda about Islamo-fascism, you’d think these guys would at least know a little about Islam… From the Nov. 2 editorial page of the conservative Washington Times, link added: What they don’t know is frightening How… Read moreGWOT policy makers don’t know Sunni from Shi’ite
In this Nov. 8 commentary for Truthout, Jason Leopold saves some salient facts about the incoming Defense Secretary from the Orwellian Memory Hole. It seems that like the outgoing Rumsfeld, he was instrumental in building US intelligence and military links… Read moreRobert Gates: another ex-Saddam symp takes helm at Pentagon
From Mexico’s El Universal, Nov. 7 via Chiapas95: GENEVA – The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), embroiled in a conflict with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), will present a report before the UN human rights officials on Wednesday saying that… Read moreMexico: torture up 300% under Fox
